<p>I'm working on my masters now but will apply to Phd soon.
My GRE scores are 770Q, 600V, 4.5AW</p>
<p>Should I retake, to get a Q score that is higher?
I want to apply to top 10-15 schools. Not MIT/Caltech, but I will apply to Georgia Tech, UIUC, Princeton, Cornell, Toronto, and a few others. </p>
<p>I know a higher score is better, but should I bother? Because I haven't done a GRE in a a couple years so it will be a fair amount of review for me, and I don't want to just waste my time if in the end I do worse, or just slightly better.</p>
<p>Personally, I think you’d be better served doing something that the admissions committee would regard as showing the potential to do research, such as getting a paper published in an IEEE journal.</p>
<p>Most of those schools publish avg GRE of applicants. If it is published and your in the range then apply. If the published is higher (most are 780-800) then you could retake I guess. </p>
<p>But more important is the research you have been a part of until the time of application.</p>
<p>If you already will have your MS, the schools you apply for will care more about who was your advisor, how much did you publish, what school you went to, what kind of recommendations you have and your GPA. They aren’t going to care about GRE in all likelihood at this point.</p>
<p>Agreed, from my experiences after you have a Master’s your thesis, published work, and recommendations are much higher! Focus on those and don’t worry so much about the GRE. BTW your verbal is pretty good for engineering, if you were worried I wouldn’t be.</p>
<p>Thanks guys, a load off my mind! I will focus on research.</p>